After Bhim Sarki and Santosh Karki made a century partnership, Tribhuvan Army Club gave a good reply to Bagmati Province on Monday in the Jay Trophy Men's Elite Cup two-day cricket match. At the end of the first day's play at the Mulpani Cricket Ground, Army scored 191 runs for the loss of 3 wickets.

Bagmati declared the end of the innings after batting in the first innings for the loss of 7 wickets after batting in 70 overs. After Bhim and Santosh made a partnership of 114 runs for the third wicket, Army is only 68 runs behind Bagmati on the basis of the first innings. The team still has 30 overs to bat.

Bhim, who scored a century in the previous match, played an innings of 74 runs. 3 overs before the end of the day's play, Bhim, who tried to flick the ball that went to the leg side of Devrehate Seamer Region Dhakal, reached the wicketkeeper and caught it. Bhim, who reached the wicketkeeper, hit 6 fours and 2 sixes in 83 balls. Santosh is unbeaten on 43 runs off 79 balls with 7 fours. He is supported by Bashir Ahmed who has scored 5 runs.

After opener Tritaraj Das was dismissed for 38 and Imran Sheikh for 18 runs, Bhim and Santosh played openly. Trita scored 38 runs off 44 balls with 3 fours and 2 sixes. Region, captain Sandeep Lamichhane and Bipin Acharya took 1 wicket each from Bagmati.

Earlier, openers Ashutosh Ghiraiya and Ishan Pandey scored half-centuries from Bagmati. Ashutosh scored 77 runs off 127 balls with 11 fours. Ishan, in the process of scoring his second half-century in a row, added 69 runs. He hit 5 fours off 104 balls.

Rit Gautam and Shubh Kansakar were dismissed for 20 runs each, Uttam Thapa Magar for 11, Vivek Magar for 31, and Bipin for 7 runs. Vivek hit 1 four and 3 sixes off 43 balls. Sandeep 5 and Surya Tamang remained unbeaten on 8 runs. Army's Shahab Alam took 3 wickets. He spent 65 runs in 22 overs with 3 maidens. Naren Saud took 2 and Bashir Ahmed and Kushal Malla took 1 wicket each.

Following APF, Police

Nepal Police Club has reached close to Nepal APF Club at the Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground in Kirtipur. APF, who were invited to bat after losing the toss, were all out for 185 runs in 63.4 overs. Police scored 179 runs for the loss of 5 wickets.

Captain Rohit Poudel scored 45 and Sumit Maharjan scored 45 runs, but others could not contribute much, so APF was reduced to under 200 runs. APF lost its last 8 wickets for 92 runs. Rohit hit 9 fours in 48 balls, while Sumit hit 5 fours and 3 sixes in 100.

Openers Deepak Bohra 28 and Asif Sheikh were out for 12 runs. Other players were Sandeep Jora 10, Bhuwan Karki and Lokesh Bam 4 each, Amarsingh Rautela 8, Abhishek Gautam 0 and Yuvraj Khatri 16 runs out. Yuvraj hit 1 four and a six in 17 balls.

Sagar Dhakal and Lalit Rajbanshi took 4-4 and Kushal Bhurtel 2 wickets for Police, who used only four bowlers. Sagar scored 66 runs with 7 maidens in 26 overs and Lalit scored 81 runs with 9 maidens in 31.4 overs.

Police lost opener Sohail Kunwar for zero. Another opener Bhurtel scored 22 runs with 2 fours in 43 balls. Amit Shrestha scored 41 runs. He hit 2 fours and 3 sixes in 50 balls. Police are leading on the basis of the first innings after Dilsad Ali and Shankar Rana put on a 76-run partnership for the fourth wicket.